Not sure what kind of details you’re looking for – but synopsized, here it is…
Before we left for Abaco, I picked a weather & tide report off the net, and sort of “scheduled” Friday for the point because of the late morning low tide. Because of ferry schedules, other plans, and my taking too long to make omelets for breakfast for everyone, we left ATBTS almost exactly at low tide on Thursday instead. As I said previously, we had the entire expanse to ourselves. We had brought a couple of pre-fabbed meals for the week which had already been consumed – we took the food storage containers along to carry shells back and to provide safe “sea life handling” apparatus for the curious kids. The point itself was a little disheveled between Floyd and people who can’t seem to find trash cans (& gone was the sign reminding people to leave the brown sand dollars alone to finish their life), but once out into the sand, you just forget about the shore… My girlfriend – a first-timer– having seen the neon teals & turquoises at Treasure Cay earlier in the week, marveled at 4 or 5 different subtle shades of green found here. We walked around in the shallows and on the exposed sand for a little better than an hour. I had primed the kids on the way there that we would be on a mission to save as many of the exposed animals as we could. The kids – as always – have an uncanny knack for spying things in the sand that the rest of us miss. We moved countless sand dollars and small starfish back into the water from the drying sand. We found some sea-slug-like creatures that I couldn’t identify, one large starfish with very active feet for the kids to get a look at, crabs, small conch’s, and loads of the usual diverse shells. We also found plenty of white sand dollars to take home with us. When we arrived, the edge of the sand about 100 yards out was virtually bordered with exposed urchins. When we noticed that they weren’t there any longer, we knew it was time to head back. The tide had crept up to the point where our little ones were more or less wading to get back to shore. We walked the beach, took some pictures, took in the beauty & the isolation, piled back in the mini-van and returned to MH. We discussed our good fortune to have experienced this place on multiple occasions without it having become developed – and we hope it stays that way…

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